Missouri
What running a truck through Missouri costs in fuel tax, what the state pays the people who drive them, and how many carriers actually call it home. Every figure is pulled from a public source and dated, and the per-mile numbers are worked at 6.0 mpg.
Fuel tax
$0.2950
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 30 of 47.
Costs you
4.92c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$54,550
May 2025. Rank 41 of 51.
Active carriers
14,421
Interstate, based in Missouri. Rank 16 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2950 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $54,550, a tenth percentile of $37,860 and a ninetieth of $77,510. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
14,421 active interstate carriers running 213,902 trucks between them, at an average of 14.8 each.
How Missouri compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Missouri sits below it by $0.0731 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,218. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 42%.
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